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The year 2020 is a crucial one in the struggle for the equality and empowerment of women and girls around the world. After all, it marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, held from 4–15 September 1995 in Beijing, China, and with it the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. At the same time, this year also marks the fifth...

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, newly independent Ukraine carried out a land reform designed to abolish the collective farm system and distribute land among the peasants, laying the foundation for the development of a private economy. But in 2001, fearing the possible consequences of launching a land market, the Ukrainian parliament (the Verkhovna Rada) introduced a moratorium on the sale and purchase of...

The activities of the Ukrainian far-rights are hard to miss. In recent years, among the targets of their violence were various groups of people: journalists, participants of peaceful gatherings on specific topics, such as anti-fascist, feminist & LGBT+ gatherings, participants of social protest-, opposition- and election-themed meetings. They also targeted some citizens with “wrong”, as to rightwing radicals, views. Police, meanwhile, has...

Last Sunday, parliamentary elections took place in Germany. Third place taken by alt-right party and vote loss by two other major political forces became a surprise for many. Johanna Bussemer, head of the European Department of Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, comments on the elections and how the political situation will change further.

Sociologist Alona Lyasheva gives an overview of quarantine measures and situation in Ukraine.
The coronavirus is affecting people all over the world and transforming their day-to-day lives. While the epidemic’s long-term effects are not yet clear, its impact is already being felt in all areas of society. Because of its global spread, the coronavirus is garnering far more media attention than many other diseases that claim numerous lives each...

Post-2014 austerity was not the first manifestation of neoliberal policy in Ukraine. Starting from the transition to the market economy in the 90s, all the governments have been pushing Ukrainian society towards a neoliberal path. This turn, however, was far from the shock policies implemented in some other countries. The oligarchs were ready to introduce market reforms only so far as to have an opportunity to create their own capital and to stay...

The studies depict a topography of what effects the European austerity diktat has had on gender relations, and formulate demands for a left-wing feminist politics rooted in social justice and gender equality.

The new issue of the magazine of social criticism “Commons” “Revolution – History and Future” is dedicated to the reflections on theory, history and strategies of left-wing movement and is connected with two anniversaries in 2017.